This week Joe Watkins speaks with Jim Pocock & Kevin Singleton from “Elevate”. For years organizations built around quality time, sports, and after-school programs have been forming—all over the country. But one of them, founded in the early 1970s has proven to be getting extraordinary outcomes and they're making a real difference. The organization is called "ELEVATE" — they're based in Colorado, but there's a chapter coming to Philadelphia. (Original Airdate 4-08-22)
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